Jonathan Rouse is the director and principal consultant of HED Consulting. He has eleven years of research, training and project management experience, much of which has been spent in developing countries. He is also a widely published author.
Jonathan has an academic background in applied physics (BSc) and rural development (MA). He began his career in India in 2000, where he designed and managed a small village-based improved stove project. The shortcomings of this project brought into focus the challenges of designing efficient, clean-burning, desirable stoves. It also motivated Jonathan to focus on understanding (and helping others understand) how to assess user needs using participatory techniques, overcome barriers to widespread adoption, and measure impacts using appropriate scientific methods.
In 2005 Jonathan was seconded to the World Health Organisation where he developed the Catalogue of Methods, which consolidates and attempts to demystify monitoring and evaluation tools for household energy. He has worked for many years as a consultant to the World Bank in Bangladesh, and on programmes across Asia and Africa with Berkeley Air, Practical Action and a range of other private and NGO bodies.
In recent years the focus of Jonathan's work has shifted towards carbon-financed improved stove programmes, developing CDM and Gold Standard baselines and projects with C Quest Capital LLC, CO2 Balance, E+Carbon and JP Morgan Climate Care.
Jonathan is based in the UK. Away from his laptop he works on his organic smallholding and chops wood for cooking and heating in his home.
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Kirstie Jagoe has worked within the field of indoor air pollution in resource poor settings for over 8 years. With a background in nursing and a masters degree in Epidemiology, Kirstie has managed several multi-national studies designed to monitor and evaluate the impacts of household energy programs.
She has a particular interest in using qualitative and quantitative research methods to explore and understand the inter-related complex impacts of household energy choices including issues related to personal injury, time and income generation, health, gender empowerment and education.
Kirstie has worked closely with grassroots organizations in Africa, South East Asia and Mexico in Shell foundation and World Bank sponsored projects. She has recently consolidated this experience to develop a guidance framework for household energy project evaluation.
Current projects include work sponsored by the World Health Organization, which aims to produce a systematic overview of the impact of programmes developing and disseminating interventions aimed at reducing exposure to household indoor air pollution.
Liz Bates is an independent household energy specialist, with particular interest in indoor air pollution and emissions. She has a PhD in Materials Science, and experience in project design and management, data management and analysis, information dissemination, fundraising, technical know-how, monitoring and evaluation. She has worked on many international programmes, mainly in East Africa, and also in Nepal.
Liz worked for the NGO Practical Action for many years, where she was international manager of a DFID-funded programme of work on Smoke, Health and Household energy. For several years she was editor of the journal 'Boiling Point', and occasionally edits household energy materials for GIZ. Liz is also involved with the HEDON household energy network.
Recently, Liz has worked with Project Gaia on the use of alcohol fuels and stoves for clean cooking, and is involved in a project in Kenya funded by UNDP, and working with both Practical Action and Project Gaia on ethanol stoves. She is working with Bosch Siemens, Practical Action, and the Universität der Bundeswehr München on optimising smoke hoods to alleviate kitchen smoke and improve combustion, with a pilot study in Nepal.
Adam Biran is a lecturer in the Environmental Health Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He is a social scientist working on household environmental health in low-income settings. He has a particular interest in social marketing and behaviour change interventions. He has over 10 years experience of consultancy, research and applied work in household environmental health and health promotion and has led assignments in Bangladesh, China, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Russia, Tajikistan, Tanzania and Uganda. For six months he was Acting Associate Director of resource centre providing information and technical support to the UK government Department for International Development. Other clients have included World Bank, UNICEF, WHO, Concern and The International Rescue Committee.
Adam's work in relation to household energy has included a study of wood collection by women and girls among Maasai pastoralists in Tanzania and a review of the evidence that smoke from indoor cooking prevents malaria by deterring insects (see Publications). He has also worked extensively on behavioural aspects of hygiene and sanitation.
Jonathan is the director of The Biodiversity Consultancy (TBC). He is a qualified ecologist with over 12 years' experience in international biodiversity conservation, including community conservation programmes and IUCN Red Data Book research. He has managed several biodiversity projects in East Africa, South and South-East Asia, the Pacific and Madagascar, including several collaborative conservation initiatives between government departments, local communities and NGOs. Applying this experience to business and development issues, his current areas of interest and work include biodiversity offsets, monitoring systems, risk assessment, and the management of secondary impacts using cross-sector partnerships. He has had a close involvement in the design and implementation of the Rio Tinto biodiversity strategy.
TBC and HED Consulting are exploring opportunities to work together through the Climate, Carbon & Biodiversity projects.
jonathan@thebiodiversityconsultancy.com
Intern
Anton Hunt is a 4th year MEng mechanical engineering student at Oxford University. He first worked with HED Consulting in 2008, helping supervise baseline fieldwork in Bangladesh. He works part time with HED Consulting, assisting with questionnaire design, QA, data analysis, programming and writing.
In February 2010 HED Consulting signed an agreement with Berkeley Air to formalise a partnership enabling us to share resources and expertise. This move builds on five years of collaboration between individuals in the organisations on a range of household energy training, monitoring and pilot activities in Africa and Asia.
Berkeley Air is a social venture based in California, USA, dedicated to protecting global health and climate. Our team provides high quality scientifically based monitoring and evaluation of household energy initiatives and related projects with particular focus on measuring health and/or climate impacts. Berkeley Air's services include study design, field sampling, data analysis, report writing, presentation and training. Berkeley Air was founded in 2007 by David Pennise and Dana Charron.